Jim Webster
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Berkeley, California, United States |
| Introduction | Former Army Brat, Plain-clothed Hippie, Poet, Wanderer, Artist, now a dad, husband and freelance writer/editor in Berkeley--where else? Music has been the one thing in my life that's kept me going, and combined with exercise it's even better. |
| Interests | Jogging, music, writing, inventing board games, cartooning, history of science, science fiction, fantasy, folktales, story telling, joke telling, just about any kind of telling |
| Favorite Movies | A Thousand Clowns, 2001: A Space Odyssey, North by Northwest, Casablanca, It’s a Wonderful Life, Apocalypse Now, Star Wars, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Dr. Strangelove, The Beast from 20, 000 Fathoms, Jason and the Argonauts (original version), The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, The Graduate, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Being There, Being John Malcovich, Brazil, Dersu Uzala, Dr. Zhivago, Chinatown, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Network, The Last Picture Show, Amadeus, Back to the Future, The Matrix, The Big Lebowski, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Jurassic Park, Toy Story, WALL•E, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Mask, Elf, Some Like It Hot, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, 8½, The 400 Blows, His Girl Friday, Miracle on 34th Street, The Maltese Falcon, A Night at the Opera, Brother From Another Planet, Do the Right Thing, Metropolis, Groundhog Day, Amadeus, The Road Warrior, The Wizard of Oz, Annie Hall, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ET, The Truman Show, Minority Report, The Secret of Roan Innish, Bull Durham, The Rocky Picture Show, Total Recall, Milk, The Elephant Man, March of the Penguins, Wag the Dog, Sideways, Altered States, M.A.S.H., Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Little Big Man, Tootsie, The Queen, Shakespeare in Love, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Jules et Jim, Day for Night; Aguirre, Wrath of God; Alphaville, The Holy Mountain, Time Bandits |
| Favorite Music | The Beatles, U2, Electric Light Orchestra, R.E.M., the Doors, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Roxy Music, Pink Floyd, Rush, Karan Casey, Traffic, Bryan Ferry, Peter Gabriel, Enya, the Fixx, Genesis, Alan Parsons Project, the Who, Aretha Franklin, Arcade Fire, the Shins, the B-52's, the Byrds, Crosby Stills & Nash, Fleetwood Mac, Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, the Yardbirds, Stevie Wonder, Fields, Santana, Simple Minds, the Police, Robert Plant, the Rolling Stones, H.P. Lovecraft, Spirit, Love, Neil Young, Cream, INXS, James Brown, the Isley Brothers, Coldplay, the Church, Cat Stevens, Beck, Thomas Dolby |
| Favorite Books | The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, Island of the Mighty, by Edith Walton, A Wizard in Earthsea, The Left Hand of Darkness, War With the Newts, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Pacific Edge, Red/Green/Blue Mars, The Crystal World, The Golden Compass, Jurassic Park, Anansi Boys, A Voyage to Arcturus, The Worm Ouroborous, Titus Groan, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, The Many-Coloured Land, Blood Music, Darwin’s Radio, Dune, Foundation, Second Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Childhood’s End, The Man in the High Castle, The Sirens of Titan, Cat’s Cradle, Twistor, The Colour Out of Space and Other Tales, Stranger in a Strange Land, Alice in Wonderland, Day of the Triffids, Holes, Ramona the Pest, Junie B. Jones Loves Handome Warren, The Phantom Tollbooth, Maniac McGee, Four Stupid Cupids, Wicked, Breathe, The Power of Un, The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek, Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Secret Agent, Moby Dick, Pride and Prejudice, The Scarlet Letter, Metamorphosis, Labyrinths, A Hundred Years of Solitude, The Screwtape Letters, Crime and Punishment, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, Invisible Cities, Einstein’s Dreams, She Stoops to Conquer, The Way of the World, Man of La Mancha, Guys and Dolls, Chaos, The Web of Life, Revolution in Time, Memories Dreams Reflections |
Do you believe that forks are evolved from spoons?
Definitely -- the SPORK is the missing link!